Big Football

NZ Truth, Issue 1018, 30 May 1925, Page 10

Big Football

Week-end Attraction '.and the New '( y , ,i. Zealancj Game. .' ,i » ■ ' : --'"'i' '■ ",- ( . ' "''. '' '• ' '-'" .''* it* ™■■;'■ " ' ''.T'j.. ■^'■" ■ ,' . : •' ', This Saturday afternoon the, Park game is. al 'Varsity • v. Berhampore clash, arid; though the students have two'or three of .their best /playing m the testl match at Christchurch, they have prayed ,by their defeat of Wellington last week-end that they are a team to be reckoned with, and,, what is riiorej. they head the ladder, unbeaten,'.: at; present. Berhampore will have their work cut out to;, knock' the : students off their,; perch.' \ r ■ ; . The gariie of games, however, is at Petorie, where the local team arid Pprieka; meet m a game with ) a direct bearing: ->ori (the champjibnship. The meeting of these ancient rivals is, and always has been,;, a noteworthy event m Rugby. There, should' be somefine -play and barracking to wake the echoes on the V Oval, r'/Athletic ■ meet >Hutt on the latter's home grounds. '■ - .;On 'Wednesday, June; 3, the • New, Zealand team for Australia try conclusions with a Wellington fifteen, m which 'Porter, ; ; Svenson and ! Mark Nichdllis, f wdrthy wearers of the silver leaf m England; not to mention the redoubtable , "Doc," who ; has also "honorably borne the emblemy m other years, Syili; 1 find » places. The tourists n^ust show their paces- to do anything startling. m: . this game^ for,' there is no gainsaying ' that Wellington is a strp'hg teani this year. / Particular interest attaches' ; to the event : in that the public may see .m faction and assess the ' merits for themselves .' of niany , of our men over whom cohtrb yersy 'waxeh Uridignant last year when the selectors .preferences for. the All Blacks were Tin; discussion; for •example, Don Wright, ; the Auckland half'; anal the Wellington nye-eighths. Johnston, for whom Tyler plumped' so ■heartily. ,:.-^- ;■■; ■ ''\r].[' : [- ':■ \ '', '■ '